How to burn DVD from iMovie 11

I just purchased an iMac with iLife 11 on it. However, there is no iDVD anymore like there used to be. Now I have an iMovie project I want to burn to DVD. Is there any other way to do it without iDVD, or do I need to now purchase that program?

I'm befuddled by iMovie and iDVD. I have a bunch of short-ish clips of my kids that I basically just want to throw together onto a DVD. I've imported them as "projects" in iMovie (and I've exported them individually to YouTube for fun), but how do I go about getting them into iDVD to make a DVD?

Thank you! Is it possible to put chapter breaks in that? Is there a way to make chapter breaks AND have a DVD that plays THROUGH the chapter breaks? The DVD I just made returns to the menu at the end of a chapter and doesn't just play through to the next chapter. Thanks again for your help.

I followed your directions exactly. Unfortunately it did not work. I have been successful in the past burning DVD's from idvd, however, with this particular movie I created in imovie, I am failing miserably. The movie is about 30 minutes long. Does that have anything to do with it? Also, do you have any further suggestions? I have burned about 8 CD's unsuccessful thus far.

I'm confused. iDVD is unstable enough on Lion to be totally useless, and apparently isn't even included. Making a movie with iMovie still works, but after making the movie and "sharing" it to media browser, it is in a format nothing else reads, assuming I can even find the file wherever iMovie decided to put it. Using another DVD authoring program (such as Toast) won't work because Toast won't read the format from iMovie. Using the original clips and trying to edit them in Toast is a miserable experience compared to iMovie, and results in files much too large to fit more than 30 minutes of video on a DVD which should hold 2 hours. So how do I get from an iMovie project to a DVD without iDVD? My current method is to reboot from drive 4 with a previously cloned boot section of 10.5 Leopard, and using the iMovie and iDVD programs from there. That also allows me to use the other three or four programs that won't run with Lion, like my film scanner and flatbed scanner. Lion seems to have no useful improvements and many drawbacks. Not what I expect from Apple.

I found the following in Apple support. The video steps you how to share your iMovie 11 project directly to a DVD. It actually passes you through an internal version of iDVD according to the video. I'll be trying this later today and will update if it doesn't work as shown!

I do not find this to be the case. This video is just the help file video from iMovie 11. I follow the steps exactly. After selecting iDVD from the share menu, it goes through its optimization routine, then when finished, opens a window of my applications and says "pick an application" ... or something like that. iMovie has obviously looked for iDVD and not found it. There is no "internal version of iDVD" in my iMovie 11. I'm on an iMac with osx I bought last December ... this is crazy! This is what Macs are supposed to be known for !!!!

You are correct. Apple has completely removed the ability of iMovie to burn DVDs. There is no workaround anywhere other than a) buying iLife on the second-hand market or b) trashing all of your iMovies and recreating them in some third-party software like "Burn". I have tried talking politely to the support line with no help. I've tried talking somewhat less politely with similar results. I have entered a complaint through the BBB, and got a rather snide response from Apple. So if you recently bought a Mac, you have just been SCREWED! Congratulations on your new purchase. I will never buy another Mac. I bought this for this one purpose only to find the ability to use it has been removed! Very shady. The video I posted needs to be changed to highlight that it doesn't work for newer Macs...

Wow. ***. I don't even get it from a business perspective ... where's the logic in any of that? Why don't they simply make another solution available at a price? At least I could understand that ... but just leaving people SOL -- on a product line that is supposed to be their strength I don't get ... is this just a move to get people to buy Final Cut (or whatever it is) maybe? ....

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